And I thought I was the only one, or that there was a new resource hidden somewhere that I wasn't savvy enough to discover. When I moved to Boston in 1991 I relied on the Globe's Thursday pull-out culture section. Everything was there...

No more kings

No more kingd

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.

Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!

NO.

Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.

PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.

This is also about autism.

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

First as tragedy, then as farce: Willis C. Hawley and Reed Smoot in 1929, right before the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (Wikipedia photo)

Yes, I had to try it myself...

Spring is springing, despite the freezing cold temp this morning!

Hâte !

The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

I bought one ~a year ago because I thought they were cool and fun to drive. I’m about as far left as you can get without falling off the edge.

A picture inside the Omaha venue in which hundreds are seen standing and listening to Bernie Sanders. Many have their phones in the air recording it and it is a generally young crowd.

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night.

800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.

There is a movement to be harnessed here.

@sanders.senate.gov

(📸 Anna Bahr)

Espace pour les jambes est une bien belle chose

Robert Reich is always right.

Anima, roman de Wajdi Mouawad, publié chez Nomades

Poolside reading: an impressively violent story of revenge and retribution, narrated from the point of view of the various animals observing the humans in their acts of rage and folly

Warm sunny day # 2

Morning coffee in a warmer clime after a morning swim

I did it. It’s easy.

I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉

YouTube video by Jiri Zednik Leontyne Price, Barber Death of Cleopatra, 1985

“Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have immortal longings in me tonight…” Happy 98th birthday to Leontyne Price! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrp...

Braving the storm (?) for Beethoven, Ravel & Stravinsky at Symphony Hall. Nathalie Stutzmann conducting; Veronika Eberle debuts in the Beethoven violin voncerto (with the wonderful Jörg Widmann cadenzas)

Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.

Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.

But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.

None of this is about waste and fraud.

A tweet from Ivan Alcantara with the text: 'I've been preparing for their arrival'. Below this text, there is an image of a child wearing a red sweater standing in front of a door, holding a glowing red trap. Below this image, there is another tweet from Sam Stein with the text: 'Reports are that DOGE staffers are now at NIH'.

I shouldn’t laugh at this but I somehow needed to.

YouTube video by Sandbox Percussion Don't Look Down (Single Release)

Out now from @pentatonemusic.bsky.social : "Don't Look Down" with Sandbox Percussion - a piece for piano and percussion quartet blending bike pumps, beer bottles, prepared piano and drums with traditional instruments.

Stream: lnk.to/CerroneDontL...
Youtube Preview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4V...

Things in the sink.

Dog park pals

He will always be THE Doctor to me